NUFORC Sighting 76559

Occurred: 2010-06-06 20:10 Local
Reported: 2010-07-15 12:07 Pacific
Duration: 5-8 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Aurora, IL, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Black / opaque/ silent sphere transversing the evening sky

The evening of June 6th at 20:10-20:18, I witnessed a black spherical object to the east towards the flight paths of Ohare and Midway airports.

Initially though it was a nearby mylar balloon ascending in the evening wind. Upon observing, I realized it was considerably more distant because a light aircraft landing nearby at a community field eclipsed the object and based on the size I would have estimated it to be much closer if it was a "free-ranging" balloon. Still skeptical, I observed and noticed the sphere ascending slowly to the south at a steady rate. A faint fuzziness existed around its perimeter. I photographed the sky using a blackberry camera phone such that each frame should encompass the sphere. To my amazement the object passed behind a thin but opaque cloud during the observation period. This then confirmed that it was much higher and further away than a mylar balloon or facsimile. The object maintained its altitude (estimated ~2000-3000 ft). The presence of numerous jets landing and small private aircraft preclude the notion of a misidentification of a plane as a black/opaque sphere. Six images were taken as it progressed southward to ultimately disappear. I am posting this observation in response to seeing NUFORC reports of similar in the vicinity.

Posted 2010-07-19

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